Showing papers by "Ira A. Noveck published in 1990"
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether the propositional logic reasoning model of Braine, Reiser and Rumain (1984) can account for propositional logical inferences made in text comprehension and found that subjects had no difficulty making the inferences necessary to judge the sensibleness of the final sentence and subjects often believed that information derived from model-predicted inferences had been presented to them in the story.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the results of four experiments, with 160 undergraduates each presented with one of eight versions of the task and found that some subjects think that the properties that are written down are identical to those of the exemplar are not the same subjects who exhibit the modal error pattern.
Abstract: The THOG task presents four designs constructed from two shapes and two colours. Subjects are told that the experimenter has written down one of the shapes and one of the colours and are provided the rule that if, and only if, any design has either the shape or the colour, but not both, written down, then it is a THOG. Finally, they are given an exemplar and are asked to classify the remaining designs. Successful solution requires construction of hypotheses, reasoning under each hypothesis, and comparison of the results under each to reach a final conclusion. Few subjects are able to provide adequate responses on the standard version of the task. We present the results of four experiments, with 160 undergraduates each presented with one of eight versions of the task. Experiments 1 and 2 indicate that (1) some subjects think that the properties that are written down are identical to those of the exemplar, although these are not the same subjects who exhibit the modal error pattern, (2) many subjects correc...
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